Bug 9871 – REGRESSION: Tabbing to elements in form after tabbing out of the document is erratic

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: Forms

This is a follow-up from bug 9484. The following issues are very similar, so I believe they have the same cause. The following was observed in nightly r15382.

1. In the test case, first tab into the document. The drop down, radio button and text area are correctly focused. 

2a. Now shift+tab backwards out of the document (depending on what your toolbars look like you go to the tab or to the >> in the bookmarks bar or something else). Tab into the document again. Now, the first thing that is focused is the radio button, instead of the drop down, as it should be.

2b. Tab forwards out of the document, through the toolbars and bookmarks bar, and back into the document. The first element that is focused this time is the text area, not the drop down, as it should be.

Created attachment 9398 [details]
Test case

[Alice Liu]

<rdar://problem/4631791>

Created attachment 11088 [details]
Test case

The behaviour for this test case isn't the same in latest nightly as when I reported this, so I removed some text in the test case.

Form focus using the keyboard has issues much in the same way as I first reported: 

1. Tabbing into, shift+tabbing out of the document, and then into it again, focuses the radio button instead of the dropdown, as before.

2. Tabbing backwards, through the toolbar and back into the document, the dropdown gets selected instead of the text area.

Also, it's impossible to tab out of the document forwards. The focus stops at the text area. Maybe this issue should be put into another bug report, if it hasn't already.

All this in nightly r17057.

[Vladimir Olexa (vladinecko)]

I tried tabbing back and forth in the test case provided and it seems to be working properly now. I can exit the document going either direction as well as return back to the proper element (drop-down going forward, text area going backwards). 

using 10.4.8, nightly r18737

This works for me now as well. Thanks Vladimir for testing.

Closing as WORKSFORME, as I don't know when or how it got fixed.